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Liberman changes up some local AM's

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purpledevil

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KJOJ/Conroe has dropped the Asian brokered programming and reverted back to the "Azucar" format as "Azucar 880". This is the 2nd time in less than a year that someone has purchased time from Liberman on KJOJ for Asian programming, only to go off of the air within a couple of months and flip to "Azucar". They did it another time last year, after another brokered program stopped and ended up simulcasting KQUE "Radio Ranchito".

Speaking of KQUE/Houston, a slight change to the station as it re-images as "La Ranchera" 1230 AM. Seems like the same format, skewed a little older.

So what is going on with LBI? Seems like all of this happened overnight.
 
I guess I'm surprised at Liberman even fliping a format. They kept KIOX and KXGJ going on and on on simalcasting. I dont really believe anyone is listening to those stations since they fliped from country.
 
Looks like "Azucar" is the designated filler format on 880. Something else will probably replace it once a programmer is found.

"La Ranchera" on 1230 might essentially be the return of the format KEYH 850 had in the 80's-90's, pre-Liberman.

On a related note, I spotted KGBC 1540 running South Asian programming the other afternoon. Only listened briefly, so don't know if it was what was formerly on 880. Guess I need to listen for a while; anyone have more info?
 
Mediafrog+ said:
On a related note, I spotted KGBC 1540 running South Asian programming the other afternoon. Only listened briefly, so don't know if it was what was formerly on 880. Guess I need to listen for a while; anyone have more info?
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That's interesting. When I checked the radio part of the EWTN website, I didn't see any listings for anything other than English, Spanish or German. (Television does target South Asia with satellite broadcasts, but it appears to be in English.) Maybe it's something new. Then again, the website doesn't even show KGBC as one of their affiliates.

So on a probably unrelated note (since I doubt that KGBC has anything to do with it) here's another question. Where will all the current South Asian brokered programming on KILE go?
 
jd said:
That's interesting. When I checked the radio part of the EWTN website, I didn't see any listings for anything other than English, Spanish or German. (Television does target South Asia with satellite broadcasts, but it appears to be in English.) Maybe it's something new. Then again, the website doesn't even show KGBC as one of their affiliates.
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I don't think KGBC has run EWTN for some time now...it appeared to be unrelated Spanish language religious when I had checked recently...the station seems to have gone through a number of brokered/networked formats since the locally produced programming disappeared a few years ago.

I listened again to KGBC for a few minutes, and heard references to "Desi Radio" and the same website that 880 had been promoting when the South Asian programming was on that station.

Some of these brokered format programmers seem to hop from one station to another; I think the Vietnamese programming now on KYND 1520 used to be on 880 a while back.
 
I've been doing traffic for Hum Tum City radio for several weeks now. At first we were on 880, then they added some other frequency for a few days... it was out of Sugar Land... they were trying to cover the city with two signals but it didn't work. They then picked up 1540 and did a simulcast on it with 880... dropping the Sugar Land signal. Now its down to the 1540 signal alone... but the past few days, their phone has had a "disconnected" message so I don't know whats going on.

The guy running the place at first was Rahan Sidiki or something like that.

Kevinc
 
Kevinc said:
I've been doing traffic for Hum Tum City radio for several weeks now. At first we were on 880, then they added some other frequency for a few days... it was out of Sugar Land... they were trying to cover the city with two signals but it didn't work. They then picked up 1540 and did a simulcast on it with 880... dropping the Sugar Land signal. Now its down to the 1540 signal alone...
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Sounds a little strange, considering that there really isn't really a station in Sugar Land. So I don't know where they got that. Their website (which is, shall we say, a little challenged) mentions 1540 but still only shows those overly generous KJOJ coverage maps from Radio-Locator. Hum...with just 1540 it looks like tough going for the Hum Tum folks.
 
I looked back at some of my old news copy for them. It was on 1130 am (KTMR - Edna, TX) for awhile and they had me billboarding it as follows:

I'm Kevin Charles...on "1130 am in Sugar Land and 880 AM in Conroe The ASIAN BROADCASTING GROUP"

I guess they were trying to attract Sugar Land listeners but the signal wasn't good enough.

Kevinc
 
No wonder. That really was a stretch.
 
Speaking of out of place formats on certain stations, has anyone noticed KLVL now running Arabic programming at certain times of the day?

Perhaps getting the jump on KILE's demise? As long as I can remember KLVL has been running some variance of Spanish broadcasting.
 
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